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School Days
As a school boy at the Old Harlow College, I used to catch the 393 bus to Sedge Green Roydon after school every day at the bus stop outside the Post Office. Six old pence each way.
A memory of Harlow in 1955 by
Rcaf North Luffenham
My father was in the RCAF, stationed at the former RAF base. We lived in the village from 1952 to 1954. The picture on this site was where we lived at the time. The village shop was next door and was operated by Mr and ...Read more
A memory of North Luffenham in 1952 by
My Grandparents Ran The Post Office
My grandparents, William and Rose Broadway ran the Post Office stores in the late 60's and 70's. I can vividly remember jars of sweets, Grandad boiling his own ham, getting up at 5am to give papers to the ...Read more
A memory of Great Tey in 1968 by
Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Two
Memories of Hay during the Second World War: Part Two. (Continued from Part One) Thoughts of 'Dad's Army' remind me that the local Home Guard occasionally used Forest Road for some kind of exercise. I've dim ...Read more
A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by
Wartime Memories Of Hay Part Three Final
Wartime Memories of Hay: Part Three. (Continued) Apart from Ration Books and the coupon implications for restricted purchase of food and clothing, my own recollections of life in Hay during World War ...Read more
A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by
Growing Up In Tottenham
I spent the first eleven years of my life in Tottenham. We lived above the PDSA dispensary in Seven Sisters Road. My father worked for the PDSA as a vet, and I remember very clearly the queues of people waiting to have ...Read more
A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by
Lost Family
I am tracing family and have ended up in Portnaguran. John Macdonald, son of Norman and Christina Macdonald, married Dolina Graham in 1921. John was a seaman on the "Narenta" at the time. They had 3 children, Angus, Christina and ...Read more
A memory of Portnaguran in 1920 by
Memories Of Parsons/ Blackdown/Deepcut/ And Chilwell Barracks
I was stationed at Parsons barracks for two weeks before we moved to Blackdown camp for basic training. I did a course on office work and did touch typing which lasted for ten weeks. ...Read more
A memory of Deepcut in 1952 by
17th Century Murder Replayed At Church Norton.
The more I think back on this incident, the more bizzare and terryfying it seems. In 2001, around Oct/Nov, myself and a friend drove to the car park at Church Norton church at about 11:00pm. We were ...Read more
A memory of Sidlesham in 2001 by
The Blackmore Family
A little more information on the Blackmore family, they moved from Ide to become the licences of the Sturt Arms, I would say around 1880, Albert was born 1886 and his sister Alice in 1874. Miss Lillian Wreford sold Albert ...Read more
A memory of Down St Mary in 1940 by
Captions
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When the school moved to Berkshire in 1934, the owners considered the idea of taking it with them, but the costs and problems of dismantling, transporting and re-erecting the building were eventually recognised
The bus shelter was built in 1964 and cost £350. The lane leads to Little London.
The final cost to him was £14,000. Mount Falinge was damaged by fire in 1975 and only the facade and terrace remain.
Costing £7,500, it was built in 1857 as a workhouse for over 200 'destitute and aged folk' with a master and matron who had to be man and wife and whose salary was £80 per annum 'with rations
St Illtyd's is built in the Decorated style and dates from the early 14th century; the nave was rebuilt and a north aisle added in 1849 at a cost of £1,200.
Situated in the Aldershot Park estate (bought by the council in 1920 for £21,000), it was originally a lake; it was drained, and dressing rooms and lawns were added, costing £20,000.
The latter, with its unusual cover, cost £3. 10s.
The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.
In 1961, a box of three Irish linen hand-rolled handkerchiefs cost 8s 11d from Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Bargate.
The Yeatman Hospital in Hospital Lane was completed in 1864 at a total cost of £2000; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Wingfield Digby.
The church was rebuilt in 1861 and the tower went up in 1873 at a cost of £3,500 in memory of Bishop Philpott, who is buried in the churchyard.
Avon Castle 1891 This late 19th-century mock castle was built 'at great cost and with the best materials and workmanship' by John Turner Turner, a renowned sportsman and big game hunter.
Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.
The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.
The verandahed building is the pavilion, which opened in 1909 and cost £300 to build. It has since been refurbished with a coated metal roof resembling pantiles.
It cost £8,000 and all of this money was paid by one benefactor, Thomas Hazelhurst.
Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.
In 1965 one of the two-bedroom cottages beside the river sold for £2,350; it would now cost £235,000.
Repair costs were felt to be unjustifiable, and demolition followed in 1927.
The village was named after the bridges crossing the River Mole.The picture shows a well-stocked corner shop dealing in general and fancy drapery, and acting also as a Postal Telegraph office.
The picture shows a well-stocked corner shop dealing in general and fancy drapery, and acting also as a Postal Telegraph office. Window displays include net curtaining, boots and shoes and hats.
On the left of the picture is a poster advertising a sacred concert at the Bijou Theatre, one of a number of ways in which Victorian holidaymakers could celebrate their Christian faith.
The project was plagued with a lack of money from the start, and Street had to redraw the plans and cut costs. The lack of a clerestory makes the nave very dark.
This had been done in 1881 at a cost of £2,000.
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